FLOWS Annual Report 2020-21

FLOWS, the forum for Loyola women students is an association exclusively catering

to the holistic development women students on campus. It creates a platform for the

women students to develop their skills and enrich their knowledge. It also looks into

the various concerns related to women students on campus. The FLOWS office

bearers work under the aegis of the Dean of women students and execute need-

based thematic programs. The theme of this academic year 2020-21, is based on

the Cartesian philosophy which means “EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE”.

As the first programme of the year 2020-2021, the webinar on “Gender Equality” was

conducted on 11.9.2020 through the video conferencing platform Google meet.

Dr.JAYASHREE VENKATADURAI, Asst. Professor, Dept. Of Visual Communication,

Avinashilingam University for Women, was the resource person. Both men and

women students actively took part in the session. The resource person focused on

various issues and concerns related to gender equality.

The main elements of the programme were

I. Defining gender equality

II. Social understanding.

III. Problems faced by the women.

IV. Inspiring women leaders.

Many interesting questions were posed by the students and the resource person

gave answers with apt examples.

“Fitness precedes focus” a webinar on women’s health and precautions to be taken

during pandemic period was held on 16.10.2020. Dr.Chithra Ramanathan, Senior

consultant, Chennai fertility centre was invited as the chief guest and resource

person.

The chief guest shared her expertise and the precautionary measures to be taken

during the COVID-19 period.

The highlights of the session were:

I. An introduction and explanation about novel corona virus and COVID-19.

II. Attention and awareness of one’s own health and the preventive

action/measures to protect our own selves.

III. Reminders to keep in mind in this pandemic period.

IV. How to handle this new virus and the disease.

V. Preventive measures like wearing masks and social distancing.

VI. How to use masks and how to choose masks.

After the session the students raised questions and their doubts and the resource

person clarified all their queries.

A webinar on “Emotional challenges in Online learning environment “was organized

on 6th Nov 2020 .Ms Anitha Yazhini, counsellor, Loyola College was the resource

person.

The highlights of the presentation were

1. Defining stress (imbalance between resources and challenges), happiness

2. How to cope up with stress?

3. Isolation, Frustration, Anger , Long Time Screen Time

4. Internal locus of control / External locus of control

5. Worrying about a problem.

A Training Session on the Insights of Government Jobs, organized by the Office of

the Dean of Women Students and Placement Cell of Loyola College in collaboration

with SSB Institute for Central and State Government Exams was held on 19th

February, 2021 through Zoom App.

Mr. Sukrut Bhushan, Mechanical Engineer from Mumbai, Certified in Human Rights

from IGNOU, with five years teaching experience in training people for Government

Bank Jobs for SBI and all Nationalized Banks of India was the resource person.

Mr. Sukrut Bhushan addressed on the key topics, ‘How to apply for Bank Jobs’. He

also interacted with students and cleared their doubts through a Question-and-

Answer session in the end. He encouraged the Students to take up UPSC exams

and Post Office Exams which will directly place them in the position of a Government

Officer.

SHERO-2021, an interdepartmental cultural event was held for women students in

view of the International Women’s Day celebrations 2021. Events such as mask

designing, poetry writing & recitation, singing, dancing, cooking, calligram etc were

organized and students took part actively and the prize winners were honored on the

day of International Women’s Day celebrations.

The International Women’s day 2021 was held on 8th March 2021 on Google meet.

Smt. P.Ramana Saraswathi IAS, Additional Commissioner (Admin), Hindu Charitable

Endowments Dept. graced the occasion and addressed the women students.

Various competitions were held on Google meet and the prize winners were

honoredwith the video tribute. The women staff achievers for the year 2021 were

recognized with a video tribute for their achievements and awards during the year

2020-2021.

The valediction of The Office Bearers of Forum for Loyola Women Students

(FLOWS) and felicitation to Former Deans was held on 19th March 2021 at MRF Hall

between 01:00 pm and 02: 00 pm.

Dr.P.S. Durga Devi, Dean of Women Students, Shift – I and Dr.S. Venkatalakshmi,

Dean of Women Students, Shift- II released the miniature of the name board of the

Women Deans since 1988.